“Armed with the knowledge of the right thing to do and the experience to know what really works, Donna is a results-oriented, no nonsense leader, always ready with innovative solutions. Her collaborative, “get it done” management style is easy to work with whether you are a business customer trying to achieve a business objective or a project team creating systems to support the business’s needs. Donna effuses a positive energy that uplifts and motivates those around her. I look forward to every interaction I have with Donna. And you will too, when you are fortunate enought to work with her. Donna is one of the few poeple that I would recommend to anyone without reservation.”
Robert Maksimchuk, Principal Consultant, Project Pragmatics, LLC
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“I had the great opportunity to work with Donna on a major initiative at Toyota Financial Services. The project was with an ASP client and presented a number of challenges that Donna was able to address and contain in every instance. Her ability to drive the project to a timely and succesful implementation was inspiring to both my team and the ASP client. Thanks to Donna’s management skills this application has now been successfully launched. I will consider Donna for another project in the future.”
Bruce Siebs, National Manager, Toyota Financial Sales
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“Donna successfully managed the cross-country move of mission critical systems from a data center that was closing to a newly built data center. Since these systems were connected to other systems, Donna had to network throughout the company to identify all of the people that should be involved, and build a detailed timeline of the steps to safely taking the systems offline and bringing them back up in the new location without interrupting the business. Although many of the subject matter experts were losing their jobs with the data center closure, Donna was able to keep the team fully engaged on the project. She is detail-oriented, an excellent communicator, meeting facilitator, planner and leader. I highly recommend Donna for managing complex projects.”
Barbara Danzi, Manager of Information Risk Management, UnitedHealth Group
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“Donna is an exceptional project manager who is adept at reconciling the conflicts between schedules and features, people with different agendas and budgets and desires. She is focused yet still embraces the idea that people should enjoy their work.”
David Oldfield, Director of Product Management & Business Development, Kofax
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“Donna was a great, dynamic member of the PM team. She has excellent project management skills with a lot of experience, which allowed her to drive projects through to successful completion. She was particularly good in cross functional environments.”
Roy Couchman, SVP of Engineering, Kofax
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“Donna is a driven and focused manager that has a great attention to detail and a drive to ensure the best results possible. At HP she was creative in the design of her projects and executed to the design and on time. She is a also a strong team player and great to work with.”
Buzz Walker, VP Marketing & Product Management, Hewlett Packard
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“It’s a pleasure to recommend Donna Reed in my capacity of a enterprise program and portfolio advisor at Toyota Financial Services. Donna is a very experienced senior level project manager that has been able to scope, define and implement complex system solutions at Toyota Financial Services. Donna has a fantastic ability to deliver high quality projects in a fast-paced and highly-matrixed large-scale IT environment. One of the more outstanding skills that Donna has is the ability to utilize her deep knowledge of delivery methodologies and best practices in order to effectively scope, estimate and manage complex projects that have multiple functional and business stakeholders. Donna’s keen sense of ownership and deep understanding of the involved technologies makes her the “go to” delivery expert. She is able to build a great report with her project team and stakeholders, and her communication style is extremely effective. Donna’s expertise is well known within the organization, and she gladly lends her expertise and advise to other projects to help them optimize their delivery.”
Alexander Ali, Enterprise Portfolio & Program Office Adviser, Toyota Financial Services
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“I had the pleasure of working with Donna throughout the IBM data center migration project at PacifiCare for about 9 months. Donna was able to immediately jump in and provide clear project management direction and leadership throughout the entire migration. She was a key asset to the team and is very experienced at managing complex, large scale IT projects. I have no problem at all recommending Donna for any project work, given her enthusiasm and dedication to the team, as well as to the general profession of Project Management.”
Nick Froissard, Senior IS Project Manager, UnitedHealth Group
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“Donna and I worked together at Kofax were she was the Senior Project Manager of an OEM product which Kofax built for FileNet. Donna did an excellent job of informing the stakeholders (of which I was one) of all the upcoming milestones and any associated risks. As a result of her attention to detail and organization we were able to meet and surpass our customer’s expectations.”
Armond Mehrabian, Manager of Software Development, Kofax
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“Donna Reed is an Excellent Project manager. She is thorough, detail oriented, and persistent in driving tasks to completion. I worked with her for over a year at United Healthcare, and I highly recommend her in any PM position.”
Kevin Donnelly, Project Manager, UnitedHealth Group
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“Donna is a extremely capable manager who digs into all aspects of any situation and works tirelessly until it is understood and a solution determined. Donna is also thoroughly adept at all elements of project management.”
Leon Tisdale, Sr. Project Manager, UnitedHealth Group
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“During her tenure with Kofax, Donna proved herself to be an energetic and enthusiastic product manager. She has a take-charge attitude, an infectious smile and the energy of an F-5 tornado. Donna would be a valuable asset to any company lucky enough to secure her services.” August 4, 2009
Michael Stearns, Lead Technical Instructor, Kofax
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“Ms. Reed is a focused, diligent professional who executes her tasks efficiently and effectively. She is an asset to any organization she chooses to join. I found her to be a strategic thinker who encompasses not only broad standard issues but also takes into consideration international perspective. She is detailed oriented professional who leads the team while being in the trenches. She had tremendous respect and admiration from his project team and colleagues. She has excellent vendor management skills.””
Sanjay Chhabria, Sr. Program Manager, Toyota Motor Sales
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“I had the priveledge of working with Donna on an OEM project for an enterprise-level document processing solution. In her role as Senior Project Manager, Donna shined in her ability to plan, drive concensus and hit the milestones over an 8-month period to the point of exceeding our partner’s expectations. Donna’s interpersonal skills are an asset when dealing with multiple teams both internally and externally to her organization. I would not hesitate to work with Donna on an engineering project in the future.”
Daniel Spencer, Engineering Project Lead, Kofax
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“I worked with Donna on business-critical projects at Toyota Financial Services that were tough to manage – strict deadlines, tight budgets, and cross-functional teams from multiple organizations within Toyota. One project involved changes to the VIN validation logic, an industry-wide change. Donna handled these difficult challenges successfully by keeping the team focused and on-task, using the skills of each team member to the best advantage. Her communication to the team was clear, so everyone could quickly accomplish their tasks for a successful implementation. Donna is an excellent Project Manager and I’d enjoy working with her again.”
Constance Barton, Sr. Business Analyst, Toyota Financial Services
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“Donna is great and talented PM. She is very dedicated to the project deliverables. Works very closely will all the resources invloved in the project. Always in sync with higher Management. She can make any project a success. Good luck Donna! Baljinder Singh”
Baljinder Singh, Sr Oracle DBA, Toyota Financial Services
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“I highly recommend Donna as Senior Project Manager. We worked together at Toyota Financial services and I can say that she was very highly respected. She is not only very competent, but a pleasure to work with also.”
Robin Andersen, Sr. Project Manager, Toyota Financial Services
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